Example sentences of "well as [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | We fixed it up as well as we could — which was n't well but it did give us both somewhere to live away from our parents , a first real taste of independence . |
| 2 | When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago , we decided to look after you as well as we could . |
| 3 | So we prepared the ship as well as we could , and waited . |
| 4 | We just helped him as well as we could in the circumstances . |
| 5 | But by the end of the decade they had absorbed the lessons learned by the other teams , and had accepted that , if they played as well as they could , they could win . |
| 6 | Pursued by the press , both men hid themselves as well as they could . |
| 7 | ‘ people with learning difficulties are not respected to begin with and because the women 's Individual Programmes , including skills training , are not in place , they are not progressing as well as they could and they are not getting respect . ’ |
| 8 | Are your investments performing as well as they could be ? |
| 9 | Are your investments performing as well as they could be ? |
| 10 | They brought him in after dark to their hearths , and answered his questions as well as they could ; and soon they spoke of Master Harry Talvace , drawing up the image of him slowly out of the well of memory . |
| 11 | Susan explained as well as she could that at present they would n't want any help , whereupon the visitor bristled and announced that she was ‘ Blunt by name , and blunt by nature ’ , and knew better than to push herself in where she was n't wanted ! |
| 12 | He was driving fast but safely and , Agnes noted , not as well as she could have done . |
| 13 | But she did not want to withdraw behind them ; feeling every inch a fool she kept her eyes on his , as well as she could , and smiled . |
| 14 | He had kissed and fondled her and she had responded as well as she could but they had both been too aware of each others inexperience and uncertainty to achieve fulfilment . |
| 15 | She sang as well as she could , hitting the right notes — she never had any problem with that — but it was pretty dreadful singing , so lifeless and uninspired , not the way she had been singing during the weeks before Gesner 's arrival . |
| 16 | She returned Travis 's kiss warmly , then bent as well as she could to hug Jonas . |
| 17 | There are certain inconsistencies in Leandre 's story , but he was obviously describing what he had experienced as well as he could remember it . |
| 18 | His confinement was not over-rigorous , as ‘ the worthy jailer Smith ’ took him out for a walk while he was there ; and by 30th August he was back at home in Ambleside , having found Anne and the children as well as he could expect . |
| 19 | ‘ Paid an' all , ’ Garty said , sidling crab-like towards Jess as well as he could , managing to stand on her skirt . |
| 20 | ‘ I think he ran as well as he could in the circumstances and he 'll go again at Longchamp in two weeks . ’ |
| 21 | Next , having reviewed , as well as he could , his work at the office , and made a courageous but unsuccessful attempt to remember whether there was any urgent correspondence he had n't dealt with , he let his thoughts return to Nenna . |
| 22 | I translated as well as I could a Scottish strath with its green basin , and the heather slopes rising from it lost to rabbits and sheep and rock . |
| 23 | Biting back feelings of inadequacy , frustration and anger I tied up the bundle as well as I could , resigning myself to losing most of it on the way down the hill , preparing for laughter and jeers when we got to the village . |
| 24 | They put things right with a smile when I got them wrong , and I fell into their ways and rhythm of working as well as I could . |
| 25 | This suited me very well as I could stay with her , only two miles down the A1 , as part of my annual leave at Chester . |
| 26 | I tried to answer the King as well as I could , but he did not think our system was a good one . |
| 27 | Fred I am worried with all that money you wo n't lose your head , there are a lot of clever dishonest people ( she means women , he said ) about these days , I brought you up as well as I could and if you do wrong it 's the same as if I did . |
| 28 | In the end I put the stones back and powdered ( as well as I could ) the cement and mixed it with water and talcum powder to camouflage the hole . |
| 29 | I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral . |
| 30 | I hid the book from them , I covered my tracks as well as I could . |